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Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 11:29:45 -0400
From: "Michael Irwin [CTech]" <mirwin@voicenet.com>
Newsgroups: corelsupport.faqs.paradox
Subject: FAQ:PdoxWin:Version 9 Release Notes

The following release notes are available by inserting your
CD, waiting for the autorun to start the Install program,
and selecting "Release Notes". You will be opening a Help
file; select Paradox 9 to get these notes.
This FAQ is provided simply to save users having to load
their CDs in order to get at these notes.
=======================================================
Paradox 9 is available in the Professional Edition of
WordPerfect Office 2000; it is not available in the Standard
Edition or Voice-Recognition Edition.

Borland Database Engine
=================
* BDE Limitation - Reports: The length of the string
identifying the full path to the report's source table,
plus the table's file name, plus the length of the name of
the first sort field, cannot be more than 66 characters.
* BDE Limitation - Referential Integrity: The length of a
string identifying the full path to the tables using
referential integrity is 81 characters. If the tables using
referential integrity have a length of more than 81
characters, you will get an error message and the
referential integrity link will fail.

Paradox 9
=======
* The Form & Report Data Model option of the Documentation
Expert will produce an error and will be unable to generate
a report if installed in the default path. The Expert or
Paradox needs to be installed in a shorter path.
* Table Restructure: selecting ARRAY field type gives an
unclear invalid field type error message when creating an
Interbase table.
* View - Auto Table Resize: doesn't disable the vertical
scrollbar under Visual Database Designer view mode.
* When editing a HTML page in the Web Repository under the
template tab, you must switch back to the repository tab
before the changes will take affect.
* Access Tables : In order to work with Microsoft Access
tables, Microsoft Access or Microsoft Data Access components
2.0 (MSDAC 2.0) must be installed.
* When printing a table structure from Info Structure, the
last record in the table may not print. Printing the table
structure from the Restructure Dialog box will print all
records.
* When printing from the Data Model Designer or the Visual
Database Designer, some fields may not be shown in the
printout. All the fields will be printed out properly if you
stretch the tables vertically so there is a blank space of
about two fields after the last field shown.
* DragonNaturallySpeaking Uninstall does not remove the menu
item within Paradox. If you select the menu item after the
uninstall you will receive "Error Initialization Dragon"
error. Re-install DragonNaturallySpeaking in order to use it
with the application.
* Installing Dragon NaturallySpeaking under Windows NT 4.0
may cause a "Microsoft Active Accessibility" is not
installed error. To prevent this error, download and install
MSAA.
* Installing Paradox 9 on the same computer as Paradox 8 will
change the location of the Web Repository. To use the original
version 8
Web Repository, you can copy all the tables in the web
repository folder (webrepos) from version 8 to the new
version 9 web repository directory.
* Graphics do not publish correctly when exported directly
to a Microsoft ..DOC file. Publishing your report to RTF and
then opening the RTF file in Microsoft Word will resolve
this problem.
* The page orientation cannot be set using ObjectPAL
PrinterSetOptions. The Workaround is to use The Print Report
Method combined with the ReportPrintInfo constant
* Closing a Microsoft Access table after entering data in
varchar field or longtext field may cause unexpected results.
To prevent this, use a form to enter data in these field
types.
* If a Report contains only a crosstab object and nothing
else, there may be a number of extra blank pages added to
the Report. This is corrected by minimizing the blank space
between the empty bands.
* Some Database Expert Templates may not work correctly
unless you set your working directory to the same directory
as that used for the Database Expert Template.
* If you place an Active X control on a form and then size
Paradox (not just the form) so it is smaller than the screen
coordinates, and using the mouse drag the top of the Paradox
application and move it down so the Active x control is
beneath the status bar and cannot be seen, you will not be
able to move the application back up on the screen any further
than the top of the Active X. The active X control blocks
this from happening. This occurs in Windows NT 4.0
only. If you close the form you will be able to move the
application to the desired position.
* Importing or using table copy for Microsoft Access with
BLOb fields under Windows NT 4.0 may cause unexpected results.

Framework 9
=========
* Under a network or a CD-ROM installation, the Application
Framework Help file (frame9.hlp) is not installed correctly.
Framework Help can be accessed from the main Paradox Help
file.

jPdox Web Utilities
=============
* All components required to support Paradox 9 Internet
features are now contained in a folder named jPdox Web
Utilities. Selecting the jPdox Web Utilities option from the
Setup Wizard launches the jPdox Web Utilities Setup Expert.
* Launching the Paradox JDBC Server can take several minutes
if your system is not connected to a network.
* JDBC Driver/DBNavigator: comma (,) character is displayed
as asterisk (*) character in the Connection dialog.
* Direct connection to a database via ODBC DSN is not
supported. Create a BDE Alias to that DSN to use ODBC
databases.
* jPdox requires ~28 MB if the Java Virtual Machine software
is not already installed.
* Windows Nt 4.0 users must have administrative privileges to
launch the Paradox Report Server.
* JRE 1.2.1 is included on the CD (jre1_2_1-win.exe in the
Corel folder).

Paradox Web Form Designer
====================
* Paradox Web Form Designer supports color displays of 256
colors or higher.
* Paradox Web Form Designer has read-only access to Oracle
tables.
* Paradox Web Form Designer has read-only access to Microsoft
SQL tables if the table contains a Boolean data type
* Paradox tables with password protection: The applet opens
in  a browser with any password entered. The workaround is
to click on the Refresh/Reload button in web browser and the
Enter Your Password dialog will be reloaded.
* AutoIncrement property cannot be set until the numeric
field bean is bound to a table.
* Tools, Settings: Get Netscape Plug-in From setting does
not work if the network path is entered.
* Table Frame: Vertical scrollbar does not scroll properly
when scrolling exceeds the set cacheSize.
* Query bean: Need to set the JDBCDriver property before you
set the tableName property.
* Calculated Field: Field name containing round brackets is
not supported.
* Calculated Field dialog: Table name requires quotes in the
formula box.
* Entering '13' as the month in a Table Frame date column
increments the year in Microsoft SQL Server databases.
* Link Fields: In order to edit the child table, the
navigator property of the child Query bean will need to be
set to a navigator bean.
* Link Fields: Saving new record to child table while focus
is on parent bean does not write to table.
* Link Fields: Beans attached to parent table do not refresh
properly after an error has occurred.
* Dates: Date bean does not work with SQL databases.
Workaround is to use the table frame or time stamp bean.
* TableName Property: Do not use the table's extension when
entering the table name.
* Radio Buttons: It is not possible to edit Microsoft SQL
Server tables using radio buttons.
* Filter bean: Does not work with SQL tables.

Documentation and Online Help
=====================
The following updates have been made to the Paradox 9 User
Guide, Version #902049. The version number can be found on
first page of the Paradox 9 User Guide.

Page 45, Private directory section (second paragraph should
read as follows):
Your default private directory is PRIVATE, created in the
SHARED directory in C:\PROGRAM FILES\COREL on your hard
drive or on your network home directory if you have no hard
drive.

Page 46, Specifying a private directory section (first
paragraph should read as follows):
If you do not specify a private directory, Paradox uses the
PRIVATE directory which is installed in the SHARED directory
in C:\PROGRAM FILES\COREL when you install Paradox on a local
(non-network) drive. If you have no local hard disk, the
network home directory on the file server should be used as
the private directory.
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